The Skeptic Metaphysicians: Spiritual Awakening & Quantum Spirituality

What if fear is just a subscription you forgot you signed up for? Energy healer, Emotion Code practitioner, and podcast host Mo Smith joins Will and Karen to explain why fear is such an easy motivator, why it follows us even into spiritual practice, and how she's spent the last six years running a real-life experiment: quitting her job with six weeks of savings and living on faith and surrender.

She shares her simple two-minute meditation for receiving guidance, how to tell a genuine message from monkey mind, and what actually happens in an Emotion Code session (yes, there's a magnet, and yes, the skeptic had questions). The episode ends with a challenge for every listener.

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In This Episode You'll Learn
How we're born with only two fears, and every other fear is learned
A simple test for any advice: is it coming from love or from fear?
Why facing fear head-on is Mo's go-to strategy, and how intention shapes what you experience in meditation
The two-minute practice that helps you ask for, and act on, intuitive messages
How to tell intuition from monkey mind ("doing, doing, going, going" is usually the mind talking)
How to discern a real nudge from an impulse that could wreck your life
What the Emotion Code is, how a session works, and why Mo encourages skepticism
How root chakra meditation helped Mo work through money fears
Chapters:
00:00 Intro: Fear as a subscription service
01:30 Welcome Mo Smith
02:50 Fear as a tool for control
03:10 Why is fear so easy and happiness so hard?
06:00 Learning to trust yourself
07:50 Fear in spiritual spaces
08:10 Intention and facing fear head-on
15:30 Taking the leap without a safety net
18:20 The Seattle Art Museum awakening
20:50 Listening to your body's messages
23:00 The two-minute meditation technique
27:00 Root chakra work and money fears
34:00 Unplug From Fear (and the "illegal coffee" story)
36:40 How to discern which messages to act on
39:40 What is the Emotion Code?
41:50 A skeptic's questions
50:00 What if you don't get a message?
52:00 Message or monkey mind?
56:00 The Two-Minute Challenge
57:10 Mo's podcast, I Love It When
The TSM Two-Minute Challenge:
Sit in silence for at least two minutes a day. At the start, ask: "What do you want me to know today?" Write down (or voice-record) anything you see, hear, or think. Then take action on it. Send us what happened, and we'll share the best stories on the show.

Resources Mentioned:
The Emotion Code by Dr. Bradley Nelson
The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod (the SAVERS practice)
Insight Timer (free meditation app)
Mo's retreat: Unplug From Fear
Connect with Mo Smith
Website: iloveitwhen.org
Podcast: I Love It When
This episode is sponsored by:
Speaker and author Scotte Burns, who rode 100,000 miles across 48 states asking one question: what is love? Book him for your event at scotteburns.com.

The Skeptic Metaphysicians is a spiritual awakening podcast for open-minded thinkers who refuse to check their critical thinking at the door. Each episode explores consciousness expansion, enlightenment, soul purpose, and soul growth through honest, grounded conversation with leading voices in metaphysics, psychic phenomena, quantum healing, and beyond. 

We dive deep into spiritual awakening, ascension, alignment, and the awakening process without the dogma. From mediumship and spirit guides to Arcturian contact, astrology, and the subconscious mind, we explore it all with curiosity, humor, and zero guru worship.

Whether you're in the middle of your own awakening, questioning reality, or just spiritually curious, this is the podcast for seekers and skeptics alike.

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What if the most important question we are asking about artificial intelligence is the wrong one entirely? In Part 1, Scotte Burns made the case that love is not an emotion, not a chemical reaction, and not an evolutionary adaptation. It is the creative and purposeful aspect of universal consciousness, and the brain does not produce that consciousness. It receives it.

That idea changes everything. Including the AI debate.

If you have not listened to Part 1 yet, stop here and go back. Seriously. The foundation Scotte builds in that first episode makes everything in this one hit completely differently. There are nuggets in Part 1 that listeners are still talking about, and we do not want you to miss a single one.

For those of you who are back, welcome. You already know what kind of conversation this is.

In Part 2, we pick up exactly where we left off and take the conversation somewhere most people never go. If consciousness is not generated by complex systems but received by them, then the entire framework of the AI consciousness debate collapses. Both camps, the ones who believe AI will eventually achieve consciousness and the ones who believe it never will, are arguing from the same flawed premise. And if they are both wrong, the implications are enormous.

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In this episode we cover:
Why every major voice in the AI consciousness debate may be operating from a fundamentally flawed premise
What it would actually mean for an artificial intelligence to receive consciousness rather than generate it
The difference between an AI that simulates love and one that could genuinely participate in it
Why a superintelligent system without consciousness is the real threat, and why that reframe is surprisingly hopeful
Can trees love? Can crows? A conversation that goes places we did not plan and is better for it
What changes for humanity when we truly understand what love is
This is the episode that will make you rethink the AI conversation, the consciousness conversation, and honestly the love conversation, all at once.

Connect with Scotte Burns:
🌐 scotteburns.com
📖 The Cartographer's Log on Substack: scotteburns.substack.com

Subscribe, leave a review, and share this episode with someone who is asking the big questions. Until then, keep questioning, keep searching, and above all, keep loving out loud.

The Skeptic Metaphysicians is a spiritual awakening podcast for open-minded thinkers who refuse to check their critical thinking at the door. Each episode explores consciousness expansion, enlightenment, soul purpose, and soul growth through honest, grounded conversation with leading voices in metaphysics, psychic phenomena, quantum healing, and beyond. 

We dive deep into spiritual awakening, ascension, alignment, and the awakening process without the dogma. From mediumship and spirit guides to Arcturian contact, astrology, and the subconscious mind, we explore it all with curiosity, humor, and zero guru worship.

Whether you're in the middle of your own awakening, questioning reality, or just spiritually curious, this is the podcast for seekers and skeptics alike.

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What if everything you have ever been told about love is wrong? Not slightly off. Not oversimplified. Fundamentally, scientifically, philosophically wrong. That is the starting point for today's conversation with Scotte Burns, a writer, speaker, and researcher who spent over a decade and more than 100,000 miles riding across America with his wife Toni, asking one question: What is love?

He interviewed quantum physicists, Buddhist monks, Lakota elders, neuroscientists, jazz musicians, and people on death row. He recorded nearly five terabytes of interviews across 48 states. And the answer he came back with is not what anyone expected. Love, Scotte argues, is not a feeling. It's not a choice. It's not a chemical reaction or an evolutionary adaptation. It's the creative and purposeful aspect of universal consciousness itself. And the brain? It doesn't produce consciousness. It receives it, like an antenna tuned to a signal that was always already there.

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In Part 1 of this two-part conversation, we cover:
Why no two people in thousands of recorded interviews have ever defined love the same way, and what that tells us about love's true nature
The critical difference between lust, attraction, attachment, and love, and why science keeps confusing them
Why grief is one of the strongest pieces of evidence that love is not biological
The concept of aeroplasticity: why love persists beyond its objects and what that reveals about consciousness
Why materialist researchers may be permanently locked out of finding the answer they are looking for
This is one of those conversations that will quietly rearrange something in the way you see the world. Part 2 drops Tuesday, and it goes somewhere we genuinely did not see coming.

Connect with Scotte Burns:
🌐 scotteburns.com
📖 The Cartographer's Log on Substack: scotteburns.substack.com

If your community, event, conference, or campus is ready for a different conversation about love, invite Scotte to speak. That's Scotte with an "e." Find him at scotteburns.com.

Subscribe, leave a review, and share this episode with someone who needs to hear it. Until then, keep questioning, keep searching, and above all, keep loving out loud.

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The Skeptic Metaphysicians is a spiritual awakening podcast for open-minded thinkers who refuse to check their critical thinking at the door. Each episode explores consciousness expansion, enlightenment, soul purpose, and soul growth through honest, grounded conversation with leading voices in metaphysics, psychic phenomena, quantum healing, and beyond. 

We dive deep into spiritual awakening, ascension, alignment, and the awakening process without the dogma. From mediumship and spirit guides to Arcturian contact, astrology, and the subconscious mind, we explore it all with curiosity, humor, and zero guru worship.

Whether you're in the middle of your own awakening, questioning reality, or just spiritually curious, this is the podcast for seekers and skeptics alike.

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What if the trip itself is the spiritual work? In this special on-location episode, Will and Karen broadcast live from Spirit Fest in Virginia Beach, joined by Samantha Erb of Edgar Cayce's A.R.E. (Association for Research and Enlightenment).

Samantha breaks down why Cayce, often called the grandfather of modern metaphysics, insisted that real growth comes from lived experience, not just study. They dig into the A.R.E.'s Travel and Tour Division, founded in 1963 by Cayce's son Hugh Lynn Cayce, and why sacred-site travel to places like Lourdes and Machu Picchu can open the door to reconnecting with your "soul family" across lifetimes.

Highlights include:
Why Cayce believed unity and shared humanity are best understood through travel, not theory
A look at upcoming A.R.E. tours to France (Lourdes and Marian apparition sites) and Peru (a past-life regression planned at Machu Picchu)
What membership actually gets you: full access to the Cayce readings archive, discounted tours, and A.R.E.'s library of classes and workshops
A tour of what's on-site at the A.R.E.'s Virginia Beach headquarters, including the meditation garden, ocean-view meditation room, and Sessions restaurant
Whether you can make it to Virginia Beach in person or you're exploring from afar at EdgarCayce.org, this conversation is a reminder that sometimes the most direct path to insight starts with a plane ticket.

The Skeptic Metaphysicians is a spiritual awakening podcast for open-minded thinkers who refuse to check their critical thinking at the door. Each episode explores consciousness expansion, enlightenment, soul purpose, and soul growth through honest, grounded conversation with leading voices in metaphysics, psychic phenomena, quantum healing, and beyond. 

We dive deep into spiritual awakening, ascension, alignment, and the awakening process without the dogma. From mediumship and spirit guides to Arcturian contact, astrology, and the subconscious mind, we explore it all with curiosity, humor, and zero guru worship.

Whether you're in the middle of your own awakening, questioning reality, or just spiritually curious, this is the podcast for seekers and skeptics alike.

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Karen and Will sit down with Richard Walter, founder of I Am Day, a global awakening movement rooted in one deceptively simple idea. Richard traces the movement's origin back to a hundred-year-old book, a string of strange numerical coincidences connecting Florence Scovel Shinn, Louise Hay, and Wayne Dyer, and a personal wake-up-call practice he calls Awakening Currents. Along the way, Karen opens up about her cancer diagnosis and the shift in mindset that changed her relationship with her own body. The conversation closes with Richard's simplest teaching yet: three breaths is all it takes to come back to yourself.

What You'll Hear
[00:07:00] Richard joins the show and explains what I Am Day is, using Will's "photograph" metaphor. September 23rd is the snapshot, but the awakening it points to is daily.
[00:09:00] The origin story. Richard finds The Game of Life and How to Play It by Florence Scovel Shinn on his own bookshelf, a year after buying it, and reads it in one sitting.
[00:13:00] The numbers get strange. Florence's book turns 100 the same year I Am Day launches. Louise Hay is born in 1926, the year the book was published, and her own breakthrough book lands exactly 50 years before this year's I Am Day. Wayne Dyer is born the year Florence dies.
[00:15:00] Karen shares her cancer diagnosis and surgery, and how she came to see her body as something to love unconditionally rather than resent.
[00:17:00] Richard connects Florence's "treatments" to Louise Hay's "Loving Treatment," and what it means to remember who you already are.
[00:18:00] What "IAM" actually stands for: the International Awakening Movement, and the debate over capital vs. lowercase "I."
[00:24:00] What actually happens on I Am Day: a full day of live teachers and contributors starting at 5 a.m. Pacific, hosted on Substack, closing with Will and Karen talking conscious media and New Reality TV at 6 p.m. Eastern.
[00:27:00] The "pebble in the pond" metaphor for why a single person showing up quietly still matters.
[00:31:00] Richard reads a live Awakening Current, his daily short-form writing practice, on air.
[00:37:00] How to register, what you get access to, and where the recordings live after the event.
[00:38:00] Richard's closing teaching: three breaths, eyes closed (unless you're driving), and the layers start to fall away.
Books & Resources Mentioned (We may get an affiliate commission on some of these links)
The Game of Life and How to Play It by Florence Scovel Shinn (1925)
You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay (1976)
You've Got to Read This Book by Jack Canfield and Gay Hendricks
The Body We Carry Forward by Richard Walter
Richard's daily Substack, I Am Awake (Awakening Currents)
Links
Register for I Am Day, September 23rd: iamday.org
New Reality TV, free on Roku, Fire TV, iOS, Android, and web: newrealitytv.com
Send us a voicemail or leave a review: skepticmetaphysician.com
Quote of the Episode "What we're trying to do is remember who we are, 'cause we are already awake. We just need to remember."

The Skeptic Metaphysicians is a spiritual awakening podcast for open-minded thinkers who refuse to check their critical thinking at the door. Each episode explores consciousness expansion, enlightenment, soul purpose, and soul growth through honest, grounded conversation with leading voices in metaphysics, psychic phenomena, quantum healing, and beyond. 

We dive deep into spiritual awakening, ascension, alignment, and the awakening process without the dogma. From mediumship and spirit guides to Arcturian contact, astrology, and the subconscious mind, we explore it all with curiosity, humor, and zero guru worship.

Whether you're in the middle of your own awakening, questioning reality, or just spiritually curious, this is the podcast for seekers and skeptics alike.

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